Product manual
Table Of Contents
- Barracuda 18FC Disc Drive
- ST118273FC
- Product Manual, Volume 1
- Barracuda 18FC Disc Drive
- ST118273FC
- Product Manual, Volume 1
- Revision status summary sheet
- Contents
- 1.0 Scope 1
- 2.0 Applicable standards and reference documentation 3
- 3.0 General description 5
- 4.0 Performance characteristics 9
- 5.0 Reliability specifications 13
- 6.0 Physical/electrical specifications 19
- 7.0 Defect and error management 25
- 8.0 Installation 27
- 9.0 Interface requirements 33
- 9.1 FC-AL features 33
- 9.1.1 Fibre Channel link service frames 33
- 9.1.2 Fibre Channel task management functions 33
- 9.1.3 Fibre Channel task management responses 33
- 9.1.4 Fibre Channel port login 34
- 9.1.5 Fibre Channel port login accept 35
- 9.1.6 Fibre Channel Process Login (PRLI) 35
- 9.1.7 Fibre Channel Process Accept (ACC) 35
- 9.1.8 Fibre Channel fabric login 36
- 9.1.9 Fibre Channel fabric accept login 37
- 9.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options 38
- 9.2 Dual port support 38
- 9.3 SCSI commands supported 39
- 9.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions 45
- 9.5 FC-AL physical interface 46
- 9.5.1 Physical characteristics 46
- 9.5.2 Connector requirements 47
- 9.5.3 Electrical description 48
- 9.5.4 Pin descriptions 48
- 9.5.5 FC-AL transmitters and receivers 49
- 9.5.6 Power 49
- 9.5.7 Fault LED Out 49
- 9.5.8 Active LED Out 49
- 9.5.9 Enable port bypass signals 50
- 9.5.10 Motor start controls 50
- 9.5.11 SEL_6 through SEL_0 ID lines 50
- 9.6 Signal characteristics 52
- 9.1 FC-AL features 33
- 10.0 Seagate Technology support services 55
- List of Figures
- Figure 1. Barracuda 18FC family disc drive 1
- Figure 2. Barracuda 18FC disc drive 5
- Figure 3. Typical Barracuda 18FC drive +12V current profile 20
- Figure 4. Mounting configuration dimensions 23
- Figure 5. Physical interface 27
- Figure 6. LED indicator connector 28
- Figure 7. Air flow 29
- Figure 8. PCBA temperature measurement locations 30
- Figure 9. HDA case temperature measurement location 30
- Figure 10. Physical interface 46
- Figure 11. Port bypass circuit physical interconnect 46
- Figure 12. FC-AL SCA device connector dimensions 47
- Figure 13. J6 connector dimensions 47
- Figure 14. FC-AL transmitters and receivers 49
- Figure 15. Transmit eye diagram 53
- Figure 16. Receive eye diagram 53
- Contents
- 1.0 Scope
- 2.0 Applicable standards and reference documentation
- 3.0 General description
- 4.0 Performance characteristics
- 4.1 Internal drive characteristics
- 4.2 Seek performance characteristics
- 4.3 Start/stop time
- 4.4 Prefetch/multi-segmented cache control
- 4.5 Cache operation
- 1. Drive transfers to the initiator the first logical block requested plus all subsequent contigu...
- 2. When a requested logical block is reached that is not in any segment, the drive fetches it and...
- 3. The drive prefetches additional logical blocks contiguous to those transferred in step 2 above...
- 1. The drive fetches the requested logical blocks from the disc and transfers them into a segment...
- 2. The drive prefetches additional logical blocks contiguous to those transferred in Case A, step...
- 4.5.1 Caching write data
- 5.0 Reliability specifications
- 6.0 Physical/electrical specifications
- 6.1 AC power requirements
- 6.2 DC power requirements
- Table 1: DC power requirements
- [1] Measured with average reading DC ammeter. Instantaneous +12V current peaks will exceed these ...
- [2] A –10% tolerance is allowed during initial spindle start but must return to ±5% before reachi...
- [3] See +12V current profile in Figure 3.
- [4] This condition occurs when the Motor Start option is enabled and the drive has not yet receiv...
- [5] See paragraph 6.2.1, “Conducted noise immunity.” Specified voltage tolerance includes ripple,...
- [6] Operating condition is defined as random seek reads of 64 blocks.
- [7] All power saving features enabled.
- [8] During idle, the heads are relocated every 60 seconds to a random location within the band fr...
- 1. Minimum current loading for each supply voltage is not less than 4% of the maximum operating c...
- 2. The +5V and +12V supplies should employ separate ground returns.
- 3. Where power is provided to multiple drives from a common supply, careful consideration for ind...
- 6.2.1 Conducted noise immunity
- 6.2.2 Power sequencing
- 6.2.3 Current profiles
- 6.3 Power dissipation
- 6.4 Environmental limits
- a. Operating
- b. Non-operating
- a. Operating
- b. Non-operating
- a. Operating
- b. Non-operating
- a. Operating (normal)
- b. Operating (abnormal)
- c. Non-operating
- d. Packaged
- a. Operating (normal)
- b. Operating (abnormal)
- c. Non-operating
- 7.0 Defect and error management
- 8.0 Installation
- 8.1 Drive ID/option selection
- 8.2 LED connections
- Figure 5. Physical interface
- [1] The drive has a 2.2K ohm resistor in series with this LED driver. Tie the minus side of an ex...
- [2] An external current-limiting resistor is required when connecting an LED to this pin. The min...
- [3] Jumper storage location (across pins 2 and 4).
- 8.2.1 J6 connector requirements
- 8.3 Drive orientation
- 8.4 Cooling
- 8.5 Drive mounting
- 8.6 Grounding
- 9.0 Interface requirements
- 9.1 FC-AL features
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- 9.1.4 Fibre Channel port login
- 9.1.5 Fibre Channel port login accept
- 9.1.6 Fibre Channel Process Login (PRLI)
- 9.1.7 Fibre Channel Process Accept (ACC)
- 9.1.8 Fibre Channel fabric login
- 9.1.9 Fibre Channel fabric accept login
- 9.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options
- 9.2 Dual port support
- 9.3 SCSI commands supported
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- [1] Barracuda 18FC drives can format to any multiple of four bytes per logical block in the range...
- [2] Warning. Power loss during flash programming can result in firmware corruption. This usually ...
- [3] Reference Mode Sense command 1Ah for mode pages supported.
- 9.3.1 Inquiry data
- 9.3.2 Mode Sense data
- A7
- 00
- 10
- 08
- 02
- 1E
- B3
- 90
- 00
- 00
- 02
- 00
- <------------------------------------------------ Mode sense pages data -------------------------...
- DEF
- 81
- 0A
- C0
- 0C
- E8
- 00
- 00
- 00
- 05
- 00
- FF
- FF
- CHG
- 81
- 0A
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- DEF
- 82
- 0E
- 80
- 80
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- 02
- 2B
- 00
- 00
- 00
- 00
- CHG
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- FF
- 00
- 00
- 00
- 00
- 00
- 00
- FF
- FF
- 00
- 00
- 00
- 00
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- 83
- 16
- 34
- 80
- 00
- 00
- 00
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- 00
- 00
- 00
- ED
- 02
- 00
- 00
- 01
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- 24
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- 00
- 00
- CHG
- 83
- 16
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- 00
- 00
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- 1C
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- CHG
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- 00
- CHG
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- 40
- <--- Read capacity data --->
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- 00
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- 9.5 FC-AL physical interface
- Figure 10. Physical interface
- 9.5.1 Physical characteristics
- 9.5.2 Connector requirements
- 9.5.3 Electrical description
- 9.5.4 Pin descriptions
- 9.5.5 FC-AL transmitters and receivers
- 9.5.6 Power
- 9.5.7 Fault LED Out
- 9.5.8 Active LED Out
- 9.5.9 Enable port bypass signals
- 9.5.10 Motor start controls
- 9.5.11 SEL_6 through SEL_0 ID lines
- 9.6 Signal characteristics
- 9.5 FC-AL physical interface
- 10.0 Seagate Technology support services

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Table 15: Mode Sense data default and changeable values for ST118273FC drives
ST118273FC
Bytes
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Mode
Sense
Header
A7 00 10 08 02 1E B3 90 00 00 02 00
<------------------------------------------------ Mode sense pages data ------------------------------------------------>
DEF
81 0A C0 0C E8 00 00 00 05 00 FF FF
CHG 81 0A FF FF 00 00 00 00 FF 00 FF FF
DEF 82 0E 80 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 2B 00 00 00 00
CHG 82 0E FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00 00
DEF 83 16 34 80 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 ED 02 00 00 01 00 24 00 34 40 00 00 00
CHG
83 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
DEF 84 16 00 1D 4D 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1C 09 00 00
CHG
84 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
DEF 87 0A 00 0C E8 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF
CHG 87 0A 0F FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF
DEF 88 12 10 00 FF FF 00 00 FF FF FF FF 80 03 00 00 00 00 00 00
CHG 88 12 B5 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 00 00 A0 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00
DEF 8A 0A 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
CHG 8A 0A 03 F1 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
DEF 99 06 00 00 00 00 00 00
CHG 99 06 00 3F 00 00 00 00
DEF 9A 0A 00 03 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 04
CHG 9A 0A 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
DEF 9C 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
CHG 9C 0A 8D 0F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
DEF 80 02 00 00
CHG 80 02 37 40
<--- Read capacity data --->
02 1E B3 8F 00 00 02 00










